Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-01-13
HOME AND FARM.


One drop of castor oil placed on
warts every day for from ten days to
two weeks, will remove them and leave
no mark. -ErchapQe. -
Gravy ladies of china or granite
ware have gone out of use very largely.
A good-sized spoon takes the place of a
ladle. and is lighter and prettier. =
Chicago Journal.
The theory that fowls and turkeys
injure the grain by roaming through it
is not true, while the slugs they kill and
their droppings made soluble by the
rain increase the crop. Troy Times.
White Cake: Two cups white sugar
and a scant cup of butter mixed to-
gether. Add the well-beaten whites of
five eggs, one cup sweet milk, three
cups slfted flour, in which stir. two tea
spoonfuls baking powder. Flavor with
any thing desired. Boston Globe.
Milk Gravy: Put in your. spider
about one tablespoonful of fred meat
gravy or butter; when hot add nearly
one pint milk; when mill. comes to a
boil. add pepper, salt, one heaping tea
spoon flour stirred in a little cold milk
SO 1t will not be lumpy. The Caterer.
Dreamed Eggs: Boil eight eggs I'M
til hard, plunge into cold water, re-
move the shells without breaking the
whites, putinto a'vegetable dish and
cover with drawn butter made of a p mt
of new milk, two spoufuls of butter, a
little salt, and thickened with half a
spoonful of cornstarch. This is an ex-
cellent breakfast dish. Housewife
"A contemporary says it is easy to
get rid of black ants. Open hin with
hoe. scatter on u handful of salt,
sprinkle on quart of water. and the
ants will leave Immediately A few
days ago the house was overrun with
insects. The correspondent found
eleven anthills within two rods of his
building. After the above application
not an ant was to be seen about the
premises.
The most popular remedy in En-
gland for the gapes in poultry, and the
most successful, is that which is known
as the powder cure Some prepared
powder is placed in a bellows, and
when the chicks or young pheasants are
in the coop it is blown therein, so that
the air becomes charged with it, and
the BIRDS breathe it. They begin to
sneeze and cough, and in this way are
able to get rid of the worms 1t is
much less dangerous than fumigation.
-Flaky Soda Biscuit: Mix together
a quart of very dry flour teaspoonful
of baking soda, two of cream of tartar
and saltspoonful of salt; pass through
a sieve, then chop in two ounces of but
ter or lard, and mix quickly with m Tx
to make very soft dough. Flour the
board well, roll out sprinkle with flour,
double it over and roll out again; cut
into biscuits half an inch thick. Bake IN
a very hot oven about fifteen minutes. =
Boston Budget. nG
Onions with Hard-Boiled Eggs:
Half-cook four or five onions by boiling
them in salt and water Take them
up, drain, and cut them in slices quar-
ter of an inch thick. Fry them in lit
tie butter until brown, and simmer for
a quarter of an hour in a pint of thick
ened and seasoned broth; then put in
six hard-boiled eggs cut in thin slices,
mix with onions, simmer together for
minute, and serve. -E1change.
The National Stockman thinks colts
are weaned too late. 1t sayssSs'As a
rule colts are weaned too late in the
season. They should have time to
learn to cat. heartily of other foods
before cold weather A colt foaled in
May should be weaned in September,
which will allow both it and its dam to
60 into winter quarters in better shape
than if the weaving is postponed until
October or November. If the mare is
kept breeding, and has not anything
else to do but to breed and nurse her
colts, she will get along if the colt is
not weaned until December; but the
colt will not do so well if put upon fod-
der and hay all of a sudden at that time
of year The young thing should be
taught to eat before it is weane d."